UNKNOWN MASTER, German
(active in 1410s in the Upper Rhineland)

The Garden of Eden (detail)

c. 1410
Tempera on wood
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt

The female figure wearing a white scarf and drawing from the water of life is St Barbara, whose humility and unshakable strong faith ties her closely to Mary.




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